Dinesh

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dinesh is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 32nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘lord of the day’ (i.e.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 607◐
  • LKSri Lanka1 in 678
  • MYMalaysia1 in 7.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈5.5K ●

across 9 countries

#462 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
295 ●

1.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.1K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

DineshLatin · Hindi●5.1M records
দীনেশBengali · Bangla●2.2K records
ДинешCyrillic · Russian●222 records
ดิเนชThai · Thai●38 records
දිනේෂSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

Locally spelled Динеш in RU Russia and Дінеш in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Sanskrit: ‘lord of the day’ (i.e. the sun).

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dinesh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#325,357,2181.5M rec.—1.8KDinesh286
MY Malaysia#6148,3543.8K rec.—812Dinesh72
GB United Kingdom—5,5192.4K rec.—listedDinesh118
US United States—4,05728K rec.1 in 82K4.1KDinesh295
LK Sri Lanka#302,1106.4K rec.——Dinesh67
FR France—1,3971.1K rec.——Dinesh130
CA Canada—1,3591.3K rec.—6Dinesh103
SG Singapore#4341,2371.5K rec.——Dinesh73
ID Indonesia—876906 rec.——Dinesh31
JP Japan—733570 rec.——Dinesh45
NP Nepal—7011.9K rec.—2Dinesh94
ZA South Africa—511462 rec.——Dinesh46

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Languages●

  • Hindi5.1M76%
  • 1.2M17%
  • English102K2%
  • Bangla60K1%
  • Indonesian43K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi5,080,88776%
1,154,45117%
English101,5202%
Bangla59,8741%
Indonesian42,7491%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dinesh is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name122K records spelled Dinesh20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ďíñèšh, Ďîñęśh, Dinésh, Díñésh, Dïñêsh

  • Arabic given name22K records spelled Dinesh4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew

    Also written דינש

  • Turkish given name1.2K records spelled Dinesh4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Dīñésh

  • Korean given name736 records spelled Dinesh2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, South Korea, United States, Malaysia

  • a separate given name354 records spelled Dinesh4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Díñésh, Dińéśh, Diñęşh

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Dinesh is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Sanskrit, 'lord of day'

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  • In English, Sanskrit, "lord of the day."

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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020K40K60K19001950200045K · 1984

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Dinesh in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1891–2017
Yearrecords
18911
189950
19007
19012
19061
19071
19091
19133
19141
19152
191610
191715
191826
191922
1920142
192141
192275
1923226
192451
192546
192630
192729
192843
192941
193034
193165
193280
193387
193497
1935122
1936139
1937188
1938203
1939253
1940358
1941340
1942503
1943494
1944673
1945676
1946864
19471,230
1948960
19491,009
19501,576
19511,834
19522,547
19531,737
19542,916
19553,007
19563,504
19574,743
19584,987
19596,655
19606,180
19616,868
196210,260
19639,020
196411,523
196511,401
196613,510
196715,142
196814,856
196916,651
197019,337
197118,744
197223,148
197322,531
197423,771
197525,446
197629,801
197726,818
197828,227
197928,519
198026,294
198132,796
198241,325
198343,367
198444,968
198542,661
198637,130
198741,383
198838,880
198937,826
199037,253
199137,775
199238,864
199338,880
199434,387
199529,149
199615,705
199715,007
199810,996
1999490
200036
200136
200210
20031
20041
20062
200725
20083,079
20095
20101,462
2011287
2012257
2013212
20144,697
20151,127
20165
201716

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 111 years between 1891–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Dinesh Singh, b. 1925Dinesh Khanna, b. 1943Dinesh Gunawardena, b. 1949Dinesh Trivedi, b. 1950Dinesh Chandra Yadav, b. 1951Dinesh D'Souza, b. 1961Dinesh Sharma, b. 1964Dinesh Mohaniya, b. 1977Dinesh Karthik, b. 1985

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 48 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Dinesh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—17K#340
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.1K#4,529
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.8K#3,399
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—1.3K#484
MY Malaysiadata.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON)—812—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020505#45,616
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—350#2,041
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026244#1,130
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025240#361
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—206#1,194
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—201#5,446
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—200#4,791

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 327 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dinesh?
We estimate roughly 5.5 thousand people bear Dinesh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Dinesh have the most bearers?
Dinesh is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled dinesh.
How common is Dinesh compared with other names?
In India, Dinesh is the 32nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Dinesh a male or female name?
Dinesh is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Dinesh mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘lord of the day’ (i.e.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dinesh” — the 32nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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